Yah Supreme (Yahya Jeffries-El) is an entertainer most known as a recording artist, DJ and Master of Ceremonies. He is a self-produced vocalist with a 22-year string of independently-released material and guest appearances. His music defies easy categorization but lives at the crossroads of hip-hop, jazz and electronica. Yah is a bandleader who performs regularly in Europe at music festivals and featured engagements.

Yah was born at Harlem Hospital and grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He graduated from Manhattan’s Hunter College High School, then received a bachelor’s in performing arts at Washington University in St. Louis as a Harold A. Ramis Scholar.  From the late 1990s to the early aughts, Yah Supreme released a number of 12-inch singles on vinyl, an EP and a compilation album on compact disc through the labels Son Doo Recordings (Brooklyn) and Underground Academy (Paris). Yah (lead vocals/production) and Tommaso Cappellato (drums/production) formed the “atmospheric hip-hop” quintet Brohemian in Brooklyn in 2004 and issued the album “Post Modern Garden in 2006.  

After a stint as the co-producer, songwriter and vocalist for the duo Moonset Juice (under the pseudonym “Bruce Gladstones”) Yah Supreme released his sophomore album “Naked City on November 11, 2014.  Yah is a writer and featured vocalist on Italian jazz quartet EM4NCIPATION‘s “Blowing Time Away” (January, 2020). Yah’s I’ll Explain Everything Later”  is currently in production for a 2020 launch.

Recording artist Yah Supreme purveys digital b-boy funk from his latest opus, Naked City. The Brooklyn native waxes esoteric (and alternately—erotic) through rhythm and poetry. Ray McNaught embellishes with lively drumming and syncopation while co-producer Tiger-VS-Cobra manipulates Ableton/MIDI consoles in real time. Each tune is a frisky synergy of vintage and virtual instrumentation tethered to themes of voyeurism/exhibitionism and social connection.